I don’t think near enough attention is given to the many things that humans demand be straight and level in life. Take walls inside houses for example, and how about bookshelves, you know stuff can easily roll off an uneven shelf. Yet we have to make straight lines out of stuff just so we can understand it better. Although [I will admit that] curves are far more interesting to us than straight lines; men have had more trouble [throughout history] understanding something with curves. Look at men attempting to understand women just as one example… curves are not that easy to “define”. 🙂

I never will forget what a golf instructor said a few years back when he informed us, “all putts are straight”. I looked around and almost everyone wanted to dispute this fact but no one dared say a word. It took me driving home from the course that day and thinking about this concept before I realized that what he said is correct – all putts are indeed straight [the only thing is everything else out there bends around] including the green the ball is rolling on. So there you have it. This whole concept mimics life in many ways. It’s why a golf ball sometimes does those crazy things when it rolls across a green. Life itself can serve up some wild curves from time to time and once you add-in a few left turns coming out of nowhere then you’re almost home! Just kidding – no you’re not, buckle up, the ride is longer than that. Don’t you agree that golf can mimic life?

It was the Greek Archimedes who may be the father of geometry by proclaiming “the shortest distance between two points is a straight line”. I have yet to meet anyone who has approached life exactly in this way, walking only a straight line to get anywhere. You don’t even find straight lines in nature, Einstein postulated [and it is now considered scientific fact] that the Universe bends and twists around, it is not geometrically straight (or sound). Even the planets, moons, and stars seem to be mostly round and curvature in shape. Asteroids are found in some odder shapes defying these rules but then asteroids misbehave a lot too, they go to places “uninvited” without a single ticket to get in. Asteroids never wait for their turn in line either. This must be why humans generally fear Asteroids?

Given all these facts we still demand that the walls inside our houses be geometrically sound, that is, as straight as possible and still today some of these get away with being “crooked”. People can be like that, we’re all about “lining” things up –
– Would you like me to place that on the calendar for you?
– Form a single line everyone, and just look at how that line bends around… but I guess that’s okay.
– Don’t cut in line now!

Forming straight lines are one important way for humans to bring order out of chaos. It’s just that I wouldn’t be walking around the house with a level to see if your walls have “integrity”. Will they conform to the human construct of forming perfectly straight lines, or not? You’ll just end up hating yourself for it. 🙂

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